Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness; When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my works.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 95:8^9.

   Straightway I was 'ware So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair And a voice said in mastery while I strove† 'Guess now who holds thee!'ö'Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang† 'Not Death, but Love.'

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet1.

A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'Meeting at Night'.

Of all the clever people round me here I most delight in Meö Mine is the only voice I care to hear, And mine the only face I like to see.

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
  'Home Thoughts in Bloomsbury'.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

-Cather,Willa Sibert
  Not Under Forty, 'Miss  Jewett'.

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberte¤   de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du de¤  sespoir. My voice will be the voice of those who suffer and have no voice. My voice, the freedom of those weakened in the dungeon of despair.

-Ce¤  saire, Aime¤   Fernand
  Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.

No voice, but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.6.

   Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earthö And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Dejection:  An Ode', stanza 4.

   Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

-Doddridge, Philip
Hymns,'Hark,  the Glad Sound' (published1755).

Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'Air and  Angels', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal, count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

-Dworkin, Andrea
Pornography: Men Possessing Women.

Her voice is full of money.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.7.

One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate still† And as I sate still under it and let it alone, a living hope rose in me, and a true voice arose in me which cried:There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.

-Fox, George
  Journal of George Fox.

Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

-Gray,Thomas
  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.38^40.

With fingers wearyand worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and threadö Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang the'Song of the Shirt'.

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Song of the Shirt'.

There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice, And wake from ignorance the WesternWorld.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
c.1737  Irene, act 4, sc.1 (first produced1749).

The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we, who live to please, must please to live.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Prologue, written for David Garrick on the occasion of the opening of his management of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heaven the measure and the choice.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.351^2.

All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him, and rejoice.

-Kethe,William   d. c.1608
  Daye's Psalter,'All People That on Earth Do Dwell'.